Charles Henry Jeens

The son of Henry and Matilda Jeens, he was born at Uley in Gloucestershire on 19 October 1827.

He learned engraving from John Brain and William Greatbach.

[1] Early in his career, Jeens worked on postage stamps for British colonies.

[1] In 1863 Jeens completed for the Art Union of London a plate begun by Henry Chawner Shenton from Thomas Francis Dicksee's A Labour of Love; and one of his final works was Joseph and Mary, after Edward Armitage, published by the same society in 1877.

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